C. T. Goforth, No. 44003, Private Charles Thomas Goforth, 18th Bn. Durham Light Infantry.
Born: Beverley, son of Mr & Mrs F. B. Robinson, 104 Keldgate, Beverley (war pension address).
Enlisted: Hull. Killed in Action: 28th March 1918.
Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France (bay 8); Durham Light Infantry section of the 1914-1918 memorial in the Beverley Minster.
Also commemorated at the Memorial Hall, Beverley; Beverley Memorial, Hengate, Beverley & Keldgate Roll of Honour.
Recorded as T Goforth on the Beverley WW1 Memorial.
“Pte C. T. Goforth, Beverley, Missing. Mr & Mrs F. B. Robinson, 104 Keldgate, Beverley, received official information from the Infantry Record Office, York, on Sunday last that their eldest son, Pte C. T. Goforth, Durham Light Infantry, was posted missing on March 28th. Pte Goforth who is barely 20 years of age, had been at the front about eleven months, and previous to entering the Army was employed at the Victoria Whiting Works” (BG, Saturday 4th May 1918) (BG, Photograph, 11th May 1918)
